The MAEASaM project is working to identify and document endangered archaeological heritage sites across eight African countries, dated from the Palaeolithic/Early Stone Age to the 20th century, then share this information to help protect them.
The MAESaM project identifies and document endangered archaeological heritage sites and monuments across eight African countries, dated from the Palaeolithic/Early Stone Age to the 20th century, and then shares this information to help protect them. The project is supported by Arcadia and led by Professor Paul Lane, University of Cambridge. It works in collaboration with government bodies and cultural institutions in Botswana, Ethiopia, Kenya, Mali, Senegal, Sudan, Tanzania and Zimbabwe.
Using a combination of remote sensing, records-based research and selective archaeological surveys, the team is building comprehensive and up-to-date records of site types and distributions, which will be made available in an open access Arches geospatial relational database tailored for different interest groups and stakeholders. Two Research Fellows, Dr Pamela Ochungo, and Ms Angela Kabiru, are employed by the BIEA at its hub in Nairobi to work on this project, while BIEA Kenya director, Dr Kennedy Gitu, is a co-investigator.
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